Alternatives

Quast alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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#1

ColabFold

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

Making Protein folding accessible to all!

2.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJupyter NotebookBioinformatics
$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold
#2

Scikit Bio

Similarity 122Trust 96Excellent 100

scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.

1.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scikit-bio/scikit-bio
#3

Bioconda Recipes

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 100

Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.

1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceShellBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes
#4

Minimap2

Similarity 122Trust 89Excellent 100

A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

2.2K starsMay 19, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2
#5

Omicverse

Similarity 122Trust 96Excellent 100

A python library for multi omics included bulk, single cell and spatial RNA-seq analysis.

1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add omicverse/omicverse
#6

Clinker

Similarity 122Trust 82Strong 75

Gene cluster comparison figure generator

643 starsDec 22, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add gamcil/clinker
#7

Foldseek

Similarity 121Trust 91Excellent 96

Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.

1.2K starsMay 13, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add steineggerlab/foldseek
#8

DnaFeaturesViewer

Similarity 120Trust 80Promising 68

:eye: Python library to plot DNA sequence features (e.g. from Genbank files)

691 starsJul 2, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add Edinburgh-Genome-Foundry/DnaFeaturesViewer
#9

Scispacy

Similarity 119Trust 86Excellent 86

A full spaCy pipeline and models for scientific/biomedical documents.

2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy
#10

Pysam

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 87

Pysam is a Python package for reading, manipulating, and writing genomics data such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the HTSlib API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.

895 starsJun 3, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add pysam-developers/pysam
#11

Biotite

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 87

A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology

958 starsJun 11, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite
#12

Wdl

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 87

Specification for the Workflow Description Language (WDL).

852 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceBioinformaticsClaude Code
$ npx skills add openwdl/wdl
#13

Plantcv

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 86

Plant phenotyping with image analysis

798 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv
#14

Bowtie2

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 86

A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner

794 starsJun 1, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add BenLangmead/bowtie2
#15

Hifiasm

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 86

Hifiasm: a haplotype-resolved assembler for accurate Hifi reads

783 starsMay 31, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add chhylp123/hifiasm
#16

PyDESeq2

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 86

A Python implementation of the DESeq2 pipeline for bulk RNA-seq DEA.

753 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/PyDESeq2

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